Between distortion and vulnerability, Chloe Star keeps finding new ways to make emotional chaos sound strangely triumphant. Just a month after releasing you say, the Los Angeles-based artist returns with fairytale, a new single that moves further into the emotional contradictions shaping her work.
Raised between Los Angeles and her family's reservation in San Bernardino, Chloe Star has built a reputation around raw honesty and a strong sense of identity. Her music moves between alt-pop, grunge textures and emotionally exposed songwriting, but what makes her stand out is the feeling that nothing is overly filtered. Even during the track's most explosive moments, there is still vulnerability sitting quietly underneath.
On fairytale, distorted guitars and cinematic piano melodies slowly unfold around a vocal performance that shifts from soft intimacy into something heavier. The track explores the tension between romantic fantasy and emotional self-sabotage, questioning whether idealised love can ever really survive reality. "My song fairytale is about longing for a kind of love that feels whimsical and almost unreal," Chloe explains. "But it also reflects the realisation that, in chasing that kind of love, I sometimes become the monster — sabotaging the very things I care about most."
Chloe never tries to clean up the messiness inside her songs. On fairytale, doubt, desire and self-awareness all exist at the same time, giving the track much of its emotional weight. "It raises questions too: does fairytale love really last the way movies say it does?" she explains. "Do stories like Beauty and the Beast actually end in lasting happiness, or do we just stop watching before things get complicated? I guess we'll never really know."
Tomorrow, Chloe Star will perform in London at The Grace before returning to Los Angeles for a headline show at The Viper Room on June 5 and an appearance at LA Pride the following day. Later in June, she will bring the project to Toronto for a show at The Horseshoe Tavern on June 18.